Re: OT: Determining toll free # ownership

[Lou Katz <lou () metron com>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:16:09AM -0400, David Lesher wrote:
> Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know this is somewhat off topic, but I am hoping someone here has previously dealt with this problem and has an 
> > answer.
> >
> > For some reason, the access telephone number for our "internal use only" dial-up modem pool -- which also happens 
> > to connect to our fax server -- has gotten on several fax spammers telephone list as being a fax telephone number. 
> > We have captured several dozen faxes sent through that number over the past few days, and they all have 'enter your 
> > number here to delete' toll free numbers on them and we would like to find out the telco that owns those blocks of 
> > 800# so we can complain.

'For some reason' ... junkfaxers 'war dial' looking for fax tones. That is how one
of my totally unlisted and never distributed fax number got picked up. Since
I use that number only for outgoing paper faxes, the fix was easy. I turned
off auto-answer.


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